In this volume, Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to some of the most innovative contemporary black fiction while addressing important issues in current African American literary studies. Distinguished scholars Houston…
In this volume, the editors have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to contemporary Black fiction while addressing important issues in current African American literary studies. Scholars Houston Baker, Trudier Harris, Darryl Dickson-Carr, and Maryemma Graham join …
Race, property, and ethics: the historical and legal equation -- The ethics of living slavery and Jim Crow -- Theft and love in two neo freedom narratives: Toni Morrison's Beloved and Charles Johnson's Middle passage -- Miscegenation, disinheritance, and the ethics of passing --…
"Race, Theft, and Ethics shows how African American literature deals with the racialized history of unequal economic opportunity in highly complex and nuanced ways, and illustrates that, for many authors, an essential aspect of their work involved contemplating the tensions betw…
In Race, Theft, and Ethics, Lovalerie King examines African American literature's critique of American law concerning matters of property, paying particular attention to the stereotypical image of the black thief. She draws on two centuries of African American writing that refle…
